page_title: Anonymus Londinensis
hierarchical_section_title: Anonymus Londinensis
caption_attribution_description: English: Anonymus Londinensis papyrus (ca. 1st century AD), from the plate printed in Supplementum Aristotelicum III.1 (1893).
context_page_description: Anonymus Londinensis is the name given to an anonymous Ancient Greek author of approximately the 1st century AD whose work On Medicine is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library. It ranks as the most important surviving medical papyrus and provides important information about the history of Greek medical thought.
context_section_description: Anonymus Londinensis (or Anonymus Londiniensis) is the name given to an anonymous Ancient Greek author of approximately the 1st century AD whose work On Medicine (Ancient Greek: Ἰατρικά, Latin: De Medicina) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165).  It ranks as the most important surviving medical papyrus and provides important information about the history of Greek medical thought.
caption: The papyrus, column 5, lines 23-45. In lines 35-37, the author quotes Aristotle/Meno: "Hippocrates says that gases (phusai, breaths, flatus) are the causes of disease, as Aristotle has stated about him." This is followed by a more specific explanation of how these gases arise from the residues (perissōmata, lines 42-43) of undigested food. The account is closely related to On Breaths in the Hippocratic Corpus.
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